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Topic: What is meant by cabinet drop? |
Roger Cox
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Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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Posted 30 May 2011 10:56 am |
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Howdy! I am new to steel guitar. Started learning lap steel about 7 months ago with the hope of eventually moving to pedal steel.
As a beginner, there is a lot of terminology on this forum that I'm not familiar with. For example, cabinet drop. Can someone explain to a beginner like me what is meant by that?
Thanks!
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Chas. J. Wagner
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Denver, Colorado USA
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Ken Metcalf
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San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 31 May 2011 6:29 am
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Engage your A pedal and F lever while checking your 6th string on a tuner.
That is cabinet drop.
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Pete Burak
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Portland, OR USA
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Posted 31 May 2011 7:08 am
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"Cabinet Drop" is the reason tuning to Equal Temperment (all open/raised/lowered notes are tuned to 440) is an impossibility on most Pedal Steels (when some strings are raised, some non-raised strings go flat).
"Cabinet Raise" is the other side of the story (when some strings are lowered, some non-lowered strings go sharp).
"Hysterisis" is another issue... some lowered strings come back sharp on most Keyed Steels (Lower string 4 E>Eb, and see if comes back to E, or a little sharp of E... it will "reset" to E after being raised). |
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Elton Smith
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Texas, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2011 8:40 am
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Msa's don't do it.Under the wood or what ever they used is a solid Aluminum frame.Like any guitar I take mine out of the case and let it heat up or cool down to the envirment Im playing in.Temp. will make any guitar expand or contract.Once it has stablized it should be good to go.The wood body on steel guitars seems to have a little flex in the wood.I think thats why they put the aluminum frame around it on Msa's.I don't know if any other makers do this.One other thing on my Msa is, it comes pre drill for add ons.The frame on the back has 6 screws in it.Take that off and all the holes are right there to put a cross shaft in.In othere words you don't have to split the guitar to add a lever or pedal.
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b0b
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Posted 2 Jun 2011 9:26 am
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"Cabinet drop" is what we call the slight detuning that occurs when a pedal is pushed.
People knew that strings were going flat because the cabinet of the guitar was flexing under the stress. We've since discovered that it's not just the cabinet that causes it - other parts are also involved - but the words "cabinet drop" have stuck.
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